Koloman Miticzky de Nemes-Miticz et
Csötörtök
Coloman von Miticzky was born on the 10th of April 1850 at Rako
in the Comitat of Turocza. On the 9th of October 1866 he entered military service
in the cavalry cadet school but it appears that his graduation results were so poor that
he was not deemed qualified for a commission and consequently he became a junior NCO
in hussar
regiment number 5 in 1869. However on the 1st of November 1874 his status was
upgraded from that of an NCO to that of a cadet in the regiment followed by his
promotion from
Kadett-Offiziersstellvertreter to Leutnant and transfer to hussar regiment number 8 on
the 1st of May 1875. In the same regiment he received his promotion to
Oberleutnant on the 1st of May 1880. There is very little available regarding
his service prior to 1880, his name was often misspelled as "Miliczky" or
"Militzky" in several sources and in later military files it was
reported that he had taken part in the campaigns of 1869/70 and 1878 but
neither hussar regiment number 5 nor hussar regiment number 8 were
engaged in any of these campaigns so it follows that he must have been attached to a superior
command or was there by accident and participated whilst attached to another unit as
often occurs in "civil-war" situations. Over the years he succeeded in
improving his rather poor seniority situation which had resulted from his
earlier lack of academic success. His original seniority amongst his peer group
as a Lieutenant was 69 but this improved to 19 as an Oberleutnant and to 4 on his promotion to
Rittmeister 2nd class on the 1st of November 1888. After the unusually short period
of only 2 and a half year he was promoted to Rittmeister 1st class with rank
number 2 on the 1st of May 1891.
On the 27th of September 1894 Koloman von Miticzky was transferred
as a Garde to the Ungarische Leibgarde, performing his first duty with the Hungarian
guard on the 8th of October of the same year. At the end of 1895 he joined the
so called
Marianer, the volunteer corps of the Deutschen Ritterorden and after signing their
contract was allowed to wear the Marianer-Kreuz of the Teutonic Order. In
February 1900 he married Irene Maria Ida, the sister of a younger comrade of
the guards, Oskar Ritter von Soest. They had a daughter, Maria Blanca Antonie
Gisella, born in Vienna on the 25th of November 1903 who later became the second
wife of the widower Hofrat Joseph Count Radetzky von Radetz in October 1938. The
duty with the guards offered possibilities to earn awards from foreign countries
and Koloman von Miticzky was honored with the award of the knight's cross
of the Belgian Order of Leopold (1903), the 4th class of the Persian Order of
the Sun and the Lion (1905) and the knight's cross 1st class of the Military
Merit Order of Spain (1906). After receiving the title of
Garde-Vize-Wachtmeister in 1905 he was promoted to Major on the 1st of November
1906 with the seniority number 1.
On the 11th of October 1907 Major und Garde-Vize-Wachtmeister
Koloman Miticzky de Nemes-Miticz et Csötörtök retried with effect from the
1st of November 1907 and additionally received for his over 40 years of faithful
service the commendation of his Kaiser which allowed him to wear the
bronze Military Merit Medal (Signum Laudis) on a red ribbon. With his young wife
and daughter he resided at his home in Vienna's 3rd district until his early
death on the 29th of August 1909.
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